An
amendment to an executive
order secretly signed by President Barack Obama on December 16,
2009 gives police officers from foreign governments police powers in
the United States.

What is most disturbing to police chiefs and officers in the US is that
the President has provided foreign officers and international agencies
exemptions from laws and regulations to which US cops must comply.

For example, foreign cops operating in the US will not be forced to
comply with the provisions of the Freedom of Information Act. The government
has already given the International
Criminal Police Organization, or INTERPOL, most of privileges enjoyed
by foreign diplomats in the US.

"This Obama executive order is a slap in the face of US cops --
who must adhere to laws and regulations including FOIA -- but also a
slap in the face of American citizens who may be abused by these non-citizen
cops from countries that don't recognize our constitutional protections,"
warns former New York City detective and Marine intelligence officer
Sidney Franes.

He also pointed out that INTERPOL member
countries include Venezuela, Syria, Yemen, Bolivia, Cuba, Iran and
Somalia -- all countries unfriendly to the U.S.

When
President Ronald Reagan's passed an executive order addressing INTERPOL,
it clearly spelled out limitations such as requiring that INTERPOL operations
be subject to several U.S. laws such as the Freedom of Information Act.
While many opposed Reagan's executive order, it was unchallenged due
to the Cold War.

"Under
the Obama administration such limitations have been kicked to the wayside
by a globalist White House," said Frances.

Obama's
executive order reads as follows:

Amending
Executive Order 12425 designating INTERPOL as a public international
organization entitled to enjoy certain privileges, exemptions and immunities

"By
the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the
laws of the United States of America, including section 1 of the International
Organizations Immunities Act (22 U.S.C. 288), and in order to extend
the appropriate privileges, exemptions, and immunities to the International
Criminal Police Organization (INTERPOL), it is hereby ordered that
Executive Order 12425 of June 16, 1983, as amended, is further amended
by deleting from the first sentence the words "except those provided
by Section 2(c), Section 3, Section 4, Section 5, and Section 6 of that
Act" and the semicolon that immediately precedes them," Obama
wrote.

"What
Obama has done is he's given foreign police agencies more power than
our own police have or should have. What's next? INTERPOL cops raiding
American homes based on unlawfully obtained information?" asks
political strategist Mike Baker.

"This
executive order signing received almost no media coverage and follows
the recent creation of an International Intelligence Agency," he
said.

In
December 2009, officials unveiled a United Kingdom government security
plan examined by reporters from the London-based Daily Telegraph that
suggested several countries -- U.S., U.K., France, Germany, etc. --
will submit classified information into a central intelligence unit
so that any member nation will have access to it.

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But
the proposals risk hard won intelligence gathered by U.S. agents being
leaked by less scrupulous security services, particularly in the
former Communist states of Eastern Europe.

Although
the Government has contributed to the proposals being drawn up as part
of unifying European countries and their resources, Britain's security
services -- MI5, its internal agency, and MI6, its foreign intelligence
agency -- will likely put up stiff opposition to these plans, claim
Waterfield and Gardham.

"This
is serious business even for the United States," said former NYPD
detective Frances.

"The United States shares top secret intelligence with the British
intelligence and law enforcement agencies. That means that very soon,
U.S. secrets will be distributed to nations that should not have access
to our military and law enforcement secrets," claims the decorated
Marine and cop.

"What worries me is that the people who these Internationalists
will spy on, just may be you and me,"
he added.

Historically
British intelligence officers have enjoyed a good relationship with
their U.S. counterparts, regularly exchanging information particularly
in the fight against terrorism.

However,
there has been a degree of mistrust between the British authorities
and European security agencies. In the 1990s the French intelligence
service was blamed for leaking information shared by MI6 to the Serbian
military,

The
intelligence-sharing plan from the European
Union Future Group is expected to form the basis of legislation
next year and calls on countries to abandon the "principle of confidentiality"
which has governed the sharing of intelligence for decades.

The
proposals stop short of calling for a European spy agency but say there
is a need for "increased synergies between police and security
intelligence services."

It
suggests a network of "antiterrorist centers" in each country
coordinated by SitCen, the European Union's intelligence assessment
center in Brussels.

"While the U.S. won't directly be involved in consolidating intelligence,
any secrets we share with Britain, France, Germany or other countries
will be open to espionage by enemy nations or terrorist groups,"
warns Det. Frances.

"Once we submit classified information to foreign entities, we
no longer have control over what groups have access to our secrets,"
he added.

Other
proposals suggest standardizing police surveillance techniques and extending
the sharing of DNA and fingerprint databases to include CCTV video footage
and material gathered by "spy drones."

The
plans are based on the idea that the EU can do better than national
governments with the report adding: "It appears that this sector
cannot be managed politically by individual member states."

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Other
proposals include the formation of a paramilitary police force which
can be deployed by a Brussels "mission command" in international
hotspots outside the EU's borders.

The
latest Obama executive order has alarmed conservatives and civil libertarians,
who view it as both an erosion of national sovereignty and a threat
to freedom.